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• Alewife Family thrives with all 3 - photo - May 14, 2012
• Encirclement and drumming at the silver maple forest, Saturday, surrounded by 10 foot Alewife herring puppets.
  May 12, 2012
  
• Second Cambridge CSO alert in a week!! - PDF file - dated May 15, 2012
  Do not go near the Alewife waters.
• May 10, 2012 - Warning: Combined sewer overflow discharge at Alewife Brook - (Long rains bring dangerous bacteria to rivers and streams) - PDF file
• mysticriver.org/herring-run-paddle/
  16th Annual Mystic River Paddle and Herring Run
  Join in the festivities of Mystic River Watershed Association
  A week from Saturday- May 20th.
• Two babies in the alewife nest - May 7, 2012
• Brian O'Neill, developer at the Uplands declares he is taking down the trees - added May 6, 2012
• World Wide Climate Day photos May 5, from 350.org (on Flickr website) - added May 6, 2012
• Learn about how our parks took shape: Civilian Conservation Corps history and film - added May 6, 2012
• Embrace the Spirit of the Forest
  Share in the silver maple Ingathering and Encirclement
  May 12 at the Alewife forest
  See Flyer and press release
• Mayor and Vice Mayor at Save the Silver Maple Forest High School Poster Contest - added April 28, 2012
• Is Placemaking "a new environmentalism"? - April 23, 2012
• City Storm water/sewer separation (CSO) progress - - April 11, 2011 - added April 27, 2012
• May is Massachusetts Rivers and Wetlands Month - Riverways Program - Commonwealth of Massachusetts - added April 25, 2012
• New report assesses state's climate change response - April 23, 2012
• Plants in FAR Perennial garden - added April 24, 2012
• FAR Workday, Saturday, April 14, 2012 - April 14, 2012
• Climate Change Message on Earth Day - From Citizens Climate lobby - added April 17, 2012
• Who is flagging our precious wetlands? - added April 12, 2012
• Groundbreaking for Alewife Native Perennial Garden - April 11, 2012
• Park Serve Day / Earth Day at Alewife, April 21, 10-2 - more information added April 11, 2012
• Dave Brown Walk at Alewife, April 14, 1-3 - more information added April 11, 2012
• Cambridge Science Festival — Urban Wild Ecosystem at Alewife, April 24, 8am-9:15am - added April 11, 2012
• Why the 185 Buzz and Ruby Roost is Empty - April 8, 2012
• FAR Poster contest is circulated in Cambridge, Belmont and Arlington. added to website April 2, 2012
  Winners.
• Ruby red-tail photo in the Alewife Reservation.
  Spring 2012
  George Maclean.
  
  added to website April 2, 2012
• Reminder of Park Serve Day, April 21 - added to website April 2, 2012
  Reminder of Dave Brown Walk April 14 at 1pm at Alewife Reservation- Acorn Park Drive (Off Route 2)
  Take advantage of DCR walks with experts throughout the Boston area and beyond.
  Understand and love our public open spaces, now preserved.
  We must keep them in that state.
• Global Warming and Impacts of Denial - added to website April 2, 2012
• City Climate Leader appeals to Cambridge City Manager - added to website April 2, 2012
• Is Cambridge complying with US-EPA Storm Water Phase II? - added to website March 29, 2012
• FAR sends letter on environmental impact to Planning Board against high density development in the floodplain - March 17, 2012
• Friends of Alewife Reservation Accomplishments and Activities March 2012- January 2011 - added to website March 16, 2012
• Save the Silver Maple Forest Concert video and photos - video added March 14, 2012
  
• Transportation: Pathways to the Future - added to website March 14, 2012
  Multipurpose pathways from western Mass and to the Sea VIA Alewife Reservation
  http://www.pathfriends.org/alewife/
  http://www.bikeitorhikeit.org/alewife_brook_paths.htm
• Mystic River Watershed Assocation Produces Policy Statement on Silver Maple forest - March 9, 2012
• Colleagues clean the future FAR perennial garden of the entry way. - added to website March 9, 2012
• Hydrology Report Shows the dangers of developing on the Belmont Uplands - added to website March 8, 2012
• Environmental and Civic Leaders Respond to Vicious GLOBE Accusations - March 3, 2012
• Horsley and Witten: Technical Analysis of Upper Alewife Brook Basin - updated February 29, 2012
• March 4 cleanup. - added February 28, 2012
• April 21 DCR Friends of Alewife Reservation Parks Serve Day. - updated February 29, 2012
  
• Blair Pond in full excavation and reconstruction. - added February 28, 2012
• Enhanced and expanded Spring activities at DCR Reservations - added February 26, 2012
• Dave Brown Leads Alewife Walk - February 18, 2012
• Mink Sightings at Alewife. Two Frolicking Alewife minks. - February 19, 2012
• Cambridge Rindge and Latin Design Class students participate in Friends of Alewife Reservation Silver Maple Forest poster contest. - February 14, 2012
• Report to to Town of Belmont - added to website February 17, 2012
  Challenge by Plaintiffs on Storm water #3 standard which includes Conservation Commission arguments to the final "Decision" of Judge Roby at the 2009 DEP Adjudicatory Hearings.
  and
  Scott Horsley 2007 report to Town of Belmont on Building design and flooding issues which exist at the Belmont Uplands silver maple forest.
• Scott Horsley of Horsley and Witten gives presentation on environmental impact study of the Silver Maple Forest to legislators at the state house sponsored by Friends of Alewife Reservation - February 14, 2012
• February 14, 2012 - Upper Alewife Basin Presentation to Legislators
• "Walks at Alewife Reservation coming up" - added to website February 12, 2012
  February, March and April
• Present locally Identified potential walking,biking and other routes to the Lower Mystic River and Tributaries - MAPC meeting - March 5, 2012 - added to website February 8, 2012
• State Appeals Court receives Silver Maple Case from Coalition to Preserve Belmont Uplands. - February 6, 2012
• Save the Silver Maple Forest concert. - February 4, 2012
  Sold Out Performance of 400. Thanks for your support.
  Program attached:
  "What You Can Do"
• Lorax Story of Dr. Seuss goes Green - January 30, 2012
• Cambridge and regional storm water basin makes progress - added to website January 31, 2012
  
• "Human Poisons Affect Wildlife" Male Fox Searches for Female after Poisoning at Mt Auburn - January 26, 2012
• Red fox male says good bye to his female partner at Mt Auburn Cemetery - January 14, 2012
• Forest Resources of Massachusetts - Published by University of Massachusetts Amherst - June 2010
• Widespread Support for Alewife Floodplain Protections - Sierra Club article on Discovery Park developments, Forest and Floodplain Forum - December 21, 2011
• Save the Forest Benefit and Fundraiser Extravaganza - updated January 26, 2012
  BelmontCoalition.org - Purchase Concert tickets here
  First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
  630 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, Massachusetts 02476
  Click to go to Google Maps for directions (on Google Maps, click on "Get directions" in upper-left corner)
  Info for parking:
  A small amount of parking is available at the Arlington Library to the right of the church on Mass. Ave. In addition, there is municipal parking on Pleasant Street (Rt. 60) just north of the intersection with Mass Ave., diagonally across from the church.
• Major Progress in Alewife Reservation Stormwater Wetland Construction - December 19, 2011
• DCR First Day Hikes across Massachusetts January 1, 2012
• Solstice Service at Alewife brings masks and dance to protect the silver maple forest
  December 17, 2011
  
• Benefit and Celebration Performance Coming in February.
  Noted musicians to perform for silver maple forest conservation.
  Jim Scott Concert Flyer (PDF)
  Jim Scott Press Release Flyer (PDF)
  Full Press Release (Word file).
  
  
• Superior Court Judge Haggerty Rules Against Town of Belmont, Plaintiffs and Communities on Silver Maple Forest - PDF of ruling - December 12, 2011
  
  Belmont Uplands Coalition Appeal - PDF of Belmont Uplands Coalition Injunction and Restraining Order
  (Legal documents have been filed on December 12, 2011)
  
  Press release (Word file)
  
  
• DEP Silver Maple Forest Wetlands Map - added December 15, 2011
  
• Seventh Annual Solstice Service - Saturday, December 17, 3pm, Alewife Reservation Meadow - Reverend Lilia Cuervo with song and ritual and Eco-mask performer - Familes/children welcome - added December 13, 2011
• Silver Maple Forest Banner at Honk Parade (photo) - added December 7, 2011
• DCR winter activities schedule - added December 4, 2011
  Word file - PDF (smaller file, faster download)
• Annual Meeting slide show - PowerPoint file If it does not open in browser, right click (on Windows PC) to download to view on your computer - added November 21, 2011
• Start an Interest Group on Alewife Reservation - Word file - PDF - added November 14, 2011
• FAR Annual Meeting Notes - November 10, 2011
• Candidates downplay silver maple forest issue - November 9, 2011
• FEMA floodway encroaches on fire-road at the least - November 10, 2011
• 185 Red Tails feed at Alewife Reservation - Buzz among the red oaks - George Mclean photographer - November 5, 2011
• Photos in the Reservation - Seniors, geese, deer run - November 2, 2011
• Attend the FAR Annual Meeting - Thursday, November 10, 7 pm, Tobin School, 197 Vassal Lane, Cambridge - added November 7, 2011
• Municipal Challenge to Council and School Com. Candidates - By Green Cambridge - Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 6:30-9 pm - added October 28, 2011
• Candidates talk walk on wildside with Dave Brown - October 24, 2011
  
  
• Alewife Brook Fish Advisory
• Response to DCR Landscape Design Plan from Friends of Alewife Reservation. - August 13 and 26, 2011 - added to website October 25, 2011
• Cambridge Candidates of School Committee and Council Walk on the Wildside at Alewife Reservation
  October 22, 2011
  
• Neighboring coyote from Mt. Auburn Cemetery - added to website October 21, 2011
• Taken at Alewife Reservation open meadow of DCR Reservation
  by George MacLean - added to website October 21, 2011
  
• Cambridge population of Andrew's Bottle Gentian (Gentiana andrewsii) - Endangered Species in Massachusetts - added to website October 21, 2011
• Alewife Reservation is an important adaptation center for this New England region - Massachusetts Releases Climate Change Adaptation Report - September 2011
• Storm water construction photos at Alewife + letter - added October 4, 2011
  
• Meeting agenda of FAR for September 7, 2011 Neighborhood meeting concerning storm water wetlands timeline and plan
• Second Site Visit for Storm Water Wetland - August 31, 2011
• O'Neill Properties makes mark on Raritan River and New Jersey.
  "Capping" proposed for solutions to toxic waste.
  www.njn.net/about/pressrelease/11archive/11jun-rescuingtheriver.html
  added to website August 31, 2011
• Mystic River Watershed Photo Contest - added to website August 28, 2011
• Combined sewer overflows. Meetings on excavations. - added to website August 28, 2011
• FAR Summer Ecology Camp: Summaries of Activities at Alewife Reservation, July 5 - August 12
  - updated August 16, 2011
  
  Youth proudly display their essays and artwork in the Alewife Reservation kiosk
  
  
  Youth search for local hawks with hawk expert Paul Roberts
  
  
• DCR events for July - added July 10, 2011
• Silver Maple Concert This Saturday
  added June 30, 2011
• Celebrate Wild Food in Cambridge's Urban Wild on June 24th Walk/Ride Day
  (Directions, Map and Alewife parking info) - added June 21, 2011
• Meeting on Alewife Construction - June 13, 2011
• Vital Alewife Natural Resources Need Consideration - added to website June 13, 2011
• "Singing For the Tree Tops," a benefit concert July 2nd to preserve the Uplands Silver Maple Forest, will feature renowned folksinger and composer, Jim Scott. - Poster, with photo of Jim (PDF) - added to website June 11, 2011
• Alewife flooding Forum on Cambridge cable coming up in June and July added to website June 11, 2011
• Drainage/Utility construction underway - May 3, 2011 announcement; added to website June 11, 2011
• Events — June 24 bike ride and July 2 concert - added to website June 4, 2011
• Alewife Spawning sighted - May 25, 2011
• Official Report on Belmont Silver Maple Forest from Normandeau Assoc. to City Council and Mayor - May 31, 2006, updated December 14, 2010
• Urban Forests are important for climate change - www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/topics/urban-forests/ (United States Forest Service writes on importance of Urban Forests) - added to website May 25, 2011
• Green Heron - Blair Pond - May 22, 2011
• Building a billion dollar empire at Alewife - Series of N.J and Pa. news and blog articles on N.J. Raritan Bay pollution and suit against same Uplands developer - May 14, 2011
• Current and Proposed Bike Paths - added to website May 17, 2011
• O'Neill Properties gets international exposure - added to website May 17, 2011
• Mother's Day Report on Walk on the Wild Side - May 8, 2011
• Baltimore Oriole at Mt Auburn- Spring is life's re-awakening - photo - May 1, 2011
• Daily Life of Red Tails at Alewife - April 29, 2011
• Three Chicks at 185 Alewife Brook Parkway — Buzz comes in for dinner - photos - received April 30, 2011
• Park Serve Day photos - at Alewife Reservation, April 16, 2011 added to website April 27, 2011
• Friends of Alewife Reservation Newsletter April 2011 - Word file added to website April 25, 2011
• Forum - Thursday, April 28 - 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm - Floodplain Forest and Floodway Development: Implications for Nearby Residents, Communities and Wildlife - Flyer updated Tuesday, April 19:
  Word document (small file) - PDF (larger file) - added to website April 12, 2011
• Park Serve Day - Saturday April 16, 2011, 9AM to 2PM - Flyer:
  Word document (small file) - PDF (larger file) - added to website March 29, 2011
• 2010 FEMA FLOODPLAIN DESIGNATIONS AT SILVER MAPLE FOREST and BULFINCH-O'NEILL CAMPUS added to website March 29, 2011
• Family Wildlife walk photos of animal and arthropod signs of spring at Alewife Reservation March 19, 2011
• Friends of Alewife Reservation Newsletter March 2011- special on silver maple forest - Word file (downloads 8 times faster than the PDF file) - PDF file - added to website March 22, 2011
• One thousand petitions delivered to State House and EOEEA from Friends of Alewife Reservation March 14, 2011
• Woburn Superior Court Civil Action case; Where is the Evidence?; Superior Court Hears Silver Maple Forest; Thank you to Attorneys March 12, 2011 press release
• Why waiting is not always the best as our legislators recommend March 12, 2011 Commentary by Ellen Mass
• Buz relieves Ruby on the nest added to website March 11, 2011
• In the Courtroom and In the Woodlands added to website March 4, 2011
• Silver Maple Trial captured by Change.org, Ben Proffer - added to website March 1, 2011
• Ruby and Buzz consummate courtship for 185 Alewife Brook Parkway added to website March 1, 2011
  
• Another website has been developed for the Belmont Uplands case which simplifies and emphasizes the major points of the Case: www.belmontcoalition.org/legal-case.html - added to website March 1, 2011
• Silver maple forest Hearing, Middlesex Superior Court, March 2, 2011
• Winking Great Horned Owl at Mt Auburn brings good tidings for March 2, date of Woburn trial of trees in Superior court. added March 1, 2011
  
• North Region DCR outdoor activities from Lynn Hildenbrand - added February 11, 2011
• Change.Org features article on silver maple forest in:
  Snow saves Massachusetts silver maple forest - February 7, 2011
  Article by Ben Proffer, Journalist New York magazine, Leisure, Elle, Travel
• Past, Present, and Future on Little River - with maps and photos - added January 25, 2011
  
• Male Red Tail warming self (photo) - added January 22, 2011
• FAR Silver Maple Forest Video - added January 18, 2011
• O'Neill Development Impact on Alewife Reservation - map - added January 13, 2011
• Hawk Talk - Buzz and Ruby Back at Alewife Winter Rendezvous Nest - January 10, 2011
• January, February, March Wildlife Walks at Alewife Reservation - added January 8, 2011
• Silver Maple Forest Wins With Legislators at the State House - January 4, 2011
• Cambridge Chronicle on Silver Maple Hearing - January 3, 2011
• Coyotes gather at entry to Little River directly west of the silver maple forest their home - 4 photos
  
  added to website January 3, 2011

• A Gift to Readers for the Holiday
  Ecology Camper Reflects on FAR Program
  Summer Award Winner
  added to website December 22, 2010
• FEMA and Mass DEP floodplain maps with O'Neill footprint - added to website December 9, 2010
• FEMA floodplain maps with O'Neill footprint - added to website December 9, 2010
• Wildlife Corridor Blockage Maps-Belmont Uplands - added to website December 9, 2010
• Winter Solstice Service 2010 arrives again at Alewife Reservation
  December 11, 2pm at South side of River Open Meadow behind Alewife T stop.
  Ritual, Music and Sharing around a fire.
• 2nd Printing "Biodiversity Study of Alewife Reservation"
  
  Hot off the press! Books are available for $10 at 186 Alewife Brook Parkway, Suite 304, Cambridge, MA 02138
  Sample (PDF: cover, one article, one data-chart page)
  Please call or email the office at (617) 415-1884, or info@friendsofalewifereservation.org for more information.
  added to website November 20, 2010
• Cambridge Prepares Officially with Nation for Climate Change
  www.cambridgema.gov/citynewsandpublications/news/2010/11/cityofcambridgetoprioritizepreparationsforclimatechange.aspx - added to website November 21, 2010
  Please consider circulating and calling Cambridge City Councilors to ask them NOT to remove their only floodplain forest.
  617 349-4000. under CITY in voice directory. Ask for Councilors Seidel, Davis, Simmons, Kelley.
  Overdevelopment and climate change protection often do not go hand in hand.
• Friends of Alewife Reservation and Redtail Hawk Video on YouTube (In depth interview with President Ellen Mass)
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVK0IyhYRjw - October 18, 2010; link added to website November 21, 2010
• Excel Academy Sixth Graders Clean Up Alewife Reservation! - photos
  October 19, 2010 - added to website November 21, 2010
• FAR Wildlife Walk (photos)- November 13, 2010
• Summarized update of silver maple activities (October 10 – November 10) - November 10, 2010
• Friends of Alewife Reservation Starts Educational Walk Series
  Third Saturday of every month at 9am.
  added to website November 6, 2010
• City website of Conservation Commission notes importance of Alewife floodplain and wetlands - added to website November 5, 2010
• Lesley University Professor Appeals for Preservation
• Mystic River Watershed Says No to Uplands Development (PDF file) - October 27, 2010
• Sierra Club says no to removal of silver maple forest. - October 26, 2010
• City Council orders city departments to consider a denial for permits. - October 25, 2010
• GRAPH SHOWS 'OVER THE TOP' TOXICS IN WINN BROOK AND LITTLE RIVER AT SILVER MAPLE FOREST EDGE - added to website October 17, 2010
• CALL TO ACTION FOR SILVER MAPLE FOREST - Alewife Rotary - 5:30 October 20, 27, Nov.3
• Belmont Land Trust supports preservation of Silver maple forest Uplands
• Coalition Requests Belmont Public Hearing to ZBA on O'Neill Changes as possibly "significant".
  Monday night meeting in Belmont.
  See statement by President of Coalition
• Activists Work To Preserve Belmont Uplands Gem
  Belmont Citizen Herald presents Centerpiece on Environmental Value of Uplands.
  Text, Photo, very short Video clip included.
  www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/features/x7657474/Activists-work-to-preserve-Belmont-Uplands-gem
  August 20 and 21, 2010
• Threatened Gentiana Andrewsii found at Alewife - added to website September 20, 2010
  
• The Reservation and Maple Forest provide adequate habitat for the Family - photos of red tails - added September 20, 2010
• Silver Maple Forest in Grave Jeopardy
  FAR Responds to Silver Maple Forest feature article from Belmont Citizen Herald
  August 17
  - added September 15, 2010
• Please Sign the Cambridge Climate Emergency Statement. - www.ericsluyter.com/cceag/ - added September 10, 2010
• State Should Shield Towns from Poor Land Uses - Article about the silver maple forest - Belmont Citizen Herald, September 3, 2010
• Art of the Alewife Urban Wild - October 1-November 4
• FAR Professional Habitat Assessment Firm: Normandeau Associates celebrates its professional history
• Report on HIGH WATER levels at Alewife - August 26, 2010
• FAR 2010 Ecology Camp summaries - From Allison Knight and Tessa Sanchez, Supervisors - added to website August 15, 2010
• Red Tails abound in Cambridge - Hawk specialist-Paul Roberts - July 29, 2010
• Friends of Alewife Reservation Ecology campers learn birding techniques - July, 2010
  
• Volunteers Cut North Trail Pathway of one mile for Summer Ecology Campers - added June 21, 2010
• Civil Action: Silver Maple Forest Belmont Conservation Commission Complaint for Superior Court June 2010 - June 8, 2010
• Superior Court filing today by defenders of silver maple forest - with complaint text as Word & PDF files
  - added June 10, 2010

  From Attorney:
  
  FAR, and more than 10 residents are appealing the DEP Commissioner's Decision which favored the developer of the silver maple forest. I intend to file it Thursday morning in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn together with the ConComm's appeal that Tino is delivering to me. Subpoenas with copies of the complaint then will be served by certified mail on the Commissioner and the Attorney General and by a process server on AP Cambridge Partners.
  
  Filed today, June 9th, 2010 in Middlesex Superior Court our Complaint as well as the Belmont Conservation Commission's Complaint appealing the DEP Commissioner's Final Decision. We will serve the subpoenas with copies of the Complaints on the Commissioner, the Attorney General, and AP Cambridge Partners. They have 20 days to file answers.
  
  Ellen Mass

• "Think Again" before polluting our storm drains City of Cambridge Storm Water Appeal - Short Video - added to website May 25, 2010
• Red tail hawks nesting - Alewife Brook Parkway - April 14-26 - 3 videos (below is a still from one of those videos), information, and links
• Belmont Conservation Commission Stands Up for Silver Maple Forest in Belmont Citizen-Herald - April 16, 2010
• Alewife Art Show photos - Stebbins Gallery - April 18, 2010
• Summary of water quality in Mystic River watershed (2004-2008) - Two maps - added to website April 16, 2010
  Alewife Brook and Winn Brook which empties into Little Pond
  in Belmont headwaters of Little River through Cambridge
• Water Quality in Alewife Sub-Watershed, Winn Brook into Little Pond – Belmont - 2002-2009 - added to website April 1, 2010
• Silver Maple Forest Case Hearings Utilize MA. Chapter 91 Tidelands Laws
  Slide Show attached from DEP - March 31, 2010 - added to website April 1, 2010
• Thumbs Down on Life of Silver Maple Forest - March 22, 2010 - added to website March 27, 2010
• FAR 2010 Newsletter
  News and Events
• Park Serve Day at Alewife Reservation, April 24
  Spring cleaning our Reservation
  from Blair Pond to Silver Maple Forest
  to Alewife T stop—WE NEED YOU!
• Mass Democratic Party Environmental Platform includes Urban Wild. Refers to Cambridge/Belmont silver maple forest - June 4 and 5, 2009 - added to website February 15, 2010
• Responses and Major News Surrounds Uplands forest developer in Pennsylvania - added to website February 13, 2010
• FEMA Revised flood plain maps. Official Effective date. - added to website February 3, 2010
• "Forest Management" plans for public lands evoke concern by Mass Forest and Parks Friends Network - added to website February 3, 2010
• Climate Congress in Cambridge - Future Plans March 6, 2010 - For All to Attend
• Cambridge Climate Congress Ends Second Session with another to follow - January 23, 2010
• Activists call on Congress to strengthen Clean Water Act - Belmont Citizen-Herald - January 20, 2010
• Peregrine Falcon Back on Rindge Towers - January 16, 2010
• Second Silver Maple Forest Motion Passed by Cambridge Democratic City Committee - January 12, 2010
• FAR HOLIDAY MESSAGE:
  Wild Alewife Turkey says Enjoy the Holidays Without Me
  
  Mihyun, former FAR office coordinator, took photo on Sat. Dec. 12 on the Alewife Reservation of a wild turkey near the Alewife/Somerville/Belmont multipurpose path.
• FAR Fund-Raiser Brings Silver Maple Woodlands Environmental and Financial Support - December 13, 2009
• Introduction to Cambridge Public School Activities on the Alewife Reservation - added December 6, 2009
• Excel students thank FAR for community service day - October 29 to November 1, 2009
• FAR Completion of Muskrat Marsh Pilot Project. - November 21, 2009
• The Floodplain Forest - added December 1, 2009
• Easy Process to Dismantle Protections for Entire Species - Audubon researches grounds for complaints - November 26, 2009
• Image Series of Alewife Reservation: Observations from Michael Arnott, North Cambridge Naturalist and Guide - with October 30, 2009 photos - added to website November 17, 2009
• Alewife Floodplain spotlighted in Globe - November 7, 2009
  Insurance rates and residential coverage grows with flooding concerns from FEMA
• Photo Taken by Dix Campbell taken on Belmont Conservation Land on Belmont Hill.
  (Corridors into and out of the Alewife Reservation)
  
  added November 14, 2009
• FAR ON TWITTER
  You can now Twitter AlewifeFriends for short comments.
  View connections with other birders and individual environmental enthusiasts throughout the world.
  Start your own connections from our connections.
• FAR distributes City of Cambridge's storm water brochure (PDF).
  The brochure describes ecosystem restoration primarily rather than detailed storm water detention functions.
• Cambridge Candidates Walk - November 1, 2009
  Dave Brown locates coyote scat for candidates.
  Left to right: Steve Gillies, Ellen Mass, Minka Van Beuzekom. Charles Marquand, front, and Neil Leavitt, back right, candidates
  Looking at Coyote prints:
     
• Excel Academy and Third Annual Cleanup At Alewife, with photo - added November 5, 2009
• 2009 newsletter (PDF file)- added September 29, 2009
• farsummerecologycamp09.wikispaces.com - Photos, summaries, descriptions and writings of summer ecology camp at Friends of Alewife Reservation - added August 29, 2009
• FAR Campers Advocate for Forest at State House - August 6, 2009; added August 25, 2009
• Friends of Alewife ecology camp going strong - August 4, 2009; added August 25, 2009
• Ecology Camp August 2009 weekly summaries -August 10, 2009
• Ecology Camp July 2009 weekly summaries - added August 10, 2009
• Alewife cleanup stirs hope - Others begin to speak out - July 23, 2009

• FAR Photo Show at 150 Cambridge Park Drive large images and more info -July 22, 2009

• After Delay, City-Alewife Storm Water and Wetlands Restoration Plan Moves Forward - May 20, 2009
  Beginning later 2009 and 2010
  Many visitor and classroom amenities are provided
  Storm Water Basin Brochure
• Walk In Honor of Bird Mothers May 10, 2009
• Find Location of Alewife Reservation Birds
  Sighting Reports and maps to EBIRDS from noted birders in the region
  Provided by Tim Factor
  http://ebird.org/ebird/sightings?locInfo.regionType=hotspot&listType=first&beginYear=1900&locInfo.parentCode=US-MA&continuous=true&endYear=2009&locInfo.regionCode=L453924
• Spring Birds and others at Alewife Reservation - April 14, 2009
• Video of water dances - April 5, 2009 Link to video on another website.
• Deer Recently photographed near silver maple forest - April 5, 2009
  
  
  
• Belmont Little Pond swans come to watch the silver maple hoola hoop light show in Cambridge - April 5, 2009
  
  
• letter to the editor - Silver Maple Forest Future Hangs in the Balance - March 10, 2009
• press release - Silver Maple Forest Future Hangs in the Balance - March 10, 2009
• Cambridge councilors vote to help save Silver Maple Forest - March 4, 2009
• Mass/Dzierzeski: Trial of Silver Maple Forest begins - March 3, 2009
• Trial of Silver Maple Forest Has Begun - added to website March 4, 2009
• SILVER MAPLE PROTECTION SUPPORT
  FROM: Forests and Parks Friends Network signing onto FAR letters.
  See Cover Letter to Friends Network and Letter to EOEA Secretary Ian Bowles.
  February 23, 2009
• FEMA floodplain map - shows areas for insurance - added to website February 23, 2009

• Historian documents Hill-Heustis historic family of Belmont and Cambridge - farm and farmland.
  Historic Case is made to preserve silver maple forest upland.
  February 12, 2009

• Save America’s Forests in Congress
  Important national Bill with support from President Obama
  Bill, Background, what you can do, photo gallery
  www.saveamericasforests.org/congress/congress.htm
  added to website February 14, 2009
• Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) presents new excellent website.
  Check out the Link. www.mysticriver.org
• "Hummingbird Migration Route - Louisiana" — Helping Along the Way.
  The Alewife Reservation attracts Ruby-throated once in a while. Sightings on web. Larger photos.
  added to website February 5, 2009
• Forest Protection: Pre-filed state DEP Testimony of professional wildlife consultant - January 22, 2009
• FAR files with state DEP in civil action on forest protection - January 22, 2009
• Retraction in fact on CCC and permitting developer of Uplands - January 18, 2009
• Cambridge Chronicle Publishes Cambridge Conservation Commission Permitting Faults In regards to Silver Maple Forest - December 25, 2008
• Legislator Will Brownsberger Supports Forest Protection
  Interview with Paul Solomon - outgoing Selectman
  bloggingbelmont.com/2008/04/in-the-mix-will-brownsberger-part-2/
  April, 2008
• Mystic River Watershed Association Supports Silver Maple Forest Protection - August 13, 2007
• Alewife flooding - Acorn Park Drive inundated - photos - December 12, 2008
• Bridge Work in Belmont Rock Meadow - Model for North Trail at Alewife Reservation - photos - added December 10, 2008
• Menotomy Birders at Dusk See Alewife Roosting of Around 2000 Starlings - link to photos - December 6, 2008
• Northern Shoveler at Blair Pond - link to photos - November 17, 2008 - added December 10, 2008
• Evening gathering - Alewife Reservation birds - November 16, 2008 - added December 10, 2008
• How to get to Blair Pond? - birds - November 11, 2008 - added December 10, 2008
• Dec. 2 Forest Forum With Determined Voices
  Photo and Quotes from Noted Speakers - added December 6, 2008
• Belmont Uplands Map of Future Hazards to Belmont, Arlington, Cambridge and Watershed (PDF file)
  Donation Requested.
  From Coalition to Preserve Belmont Uplands and Winn Brook Neighborhood (CPBuWBN)
  added November 15, 2008
  
  
• Pathway surfacing in the Alewife Reservation, letter to Jennifer Wright, Executive Director- Cambridge Conservation Commission (Microsoft Word file) - added November 15, 2008
• Alewife Reservation Bike Path disputed by Friends of Alewife Reservation - November 12, 2008
• Blair Pond birds with duck photos by Craig Gibson - November 10, 2008
• Blair Pond birds with duck photos by Will Freedberg - November 9, 2008

• Another Official Blow to the Silver Maple Forest
  DEP grants a superceding order of conditions (PDF file)
  October 31, 2008
  
  Belmont Conservation Commission may appeal the state Decision. - added November 12, 2008

• Coalition to Protect Belmont Uplands and Winn Brook Neighborhood files Courtroom Status Report (Microsoft Word file) of the Case in ongoing Civil Action Suit to Preserve the Silver Maple Forest. - added November 12, 2008
• FAR asks DCR to work in cooperation with them And complete the prescribed work plan - October 20, 2008 - added November 13, 2008

• Summer ecology camp in action, including youth activities -articles, photos, and movies - on wikispaces.com - added October 16, 2008
• Menotomy Birders - Alewife Reservation birds - October 8, 2008
• Alewife Reservation birds - September 17, 2008
• Statement of disappointment in Governor’s forest veto - added August 16, 2008
• Same time, very different scene at Blair Pond, Cambridge (birds) - August 14, 2008
• Uplands News:
  Pennsylvania and Belmont Developer’s 53 million dollar luxury waterfront development goes up in flames.
  Thousands may be without homes. - August 14, 2008
  www.saveardmorecoalition.org/node/2425
• Interesting Blair Pond birds Located - August 13, 2008
• Kingfisher at Blair Pond - August 5, 2008

• Summer FAR Ecology Camp 2008 Teaches Environmental Science To Cambridge Youth Daily Reports from FAR Coordinator - August 6, 2008 - images added August 13 & 14, 2008; text added August 14, 2008

• Selectmen Push Uplands Development Position - June 1, 2008
• Memorial Day at Alewife Reservation -- Ambling down Little River - May 26, 2008
• Spring Bird Box Cleaning at Alewife, by Bill Ackerly - May 16, 2008
• Mass: Spring is bursting out at Alewife - May 8, 2008
• FAR Ecology Camp 2008 plans to restore a section of Muskrat Marsh (PDF)- April 23, 2008 - added to website May 12, 2008
• May 7th Photo Bird Sightings by Seamus
• First spring birding at Alewife Reservation - March 25, 2008
• Muskrat Marsh Maps - added to website March 13, 2008
• Birder Seamus strolls the Lower Alewife - February 16, 2008 - added to website March 12, 2008
• Background and Minutes of Meeting regarding Amelia Earhart Dam and related issues - February 6, 2008 - added to website March 12, 2008
• Cambridge High School Teacher Has High Hopes for Alewife Reservation and DCR Improvements - added to website February 27, 2008
• Organization's Activities and Accomplishments - FAR Annual Meeting slideshow (3MB PowerPoint file) - January 31, 2008
• New face to FAR - New Task Force members - added to website February 25, 2008
• Belmont Uplands Makes the Globe Front Page
  Feb. 22.
  Your response is requested.
  We hope to deluge the Globe with many short letter to editor respondants.
  Our local urban environment is once again ignored and diminished.
  www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/22/fight_pits_affordable_housing_vs_15_green_belmont_acres/
• Speaking on the Silver Maple Forest
  Belmont Citizen Herald - February 14, 2008
  Clamor for Purchase of the Uplands
  By Virginia Fuller, Former President of Mass Wildlife
  www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/news/opinions/x1094540955

• BREAKING NEWS ON PURCHASE OF FOREST - updated February 25, 2008
  Silver Maple Forest passes Natural Resources Committee with the state Environmental Bond Bill - February 18, 2008
  The Bill needs to pass in this Legislative Session. FAR requests that you e-mail and call your state representatives right away.
  See Bond Bill (on envirobond.org website), See information and sample letters - updated February 25, 2008

• Cambridge City Council Passes Resolution in behalf of FAR Past and Future Work
  - February 4, 2008 - added to website February 19, 2008
  Sponsored by Sam Seidel. Mayor's office supports Green Jobs initiatives.

• See efforts to protect Alewife Brook Parkway and other Parkways of the DCR. - February 19, 2008 (PDF file)
  Alewife Brook Parkway - Beautiful, Natural and Residential friendly.
  Not a highway in our towns and city.
• FAR Thanks and calls on DCR to do Right by Ecosystems of Alewife Reservation - February 2, 2008
• Recent Beautiful photos from Seamus Palmer - February 2, 2008
• CSO alert Alewife Brook - February 1, 2008
• Annual Meeting Elects Leaders of the Future - January 31, 2008
• Governor Patrick's preamble to the Environmental Bond - added to website February 4, 2008
• Cambridge Elementary classes observe and draw at Alewife - with photos - June 2007
  - added to website January 29, 2008

• FAR Annual Meeting - January 31, 2008 - Thursday, 6:30 added to website January 13, 2008
  Lesley University- 2nd floor, Porter Square Building, Mass Ave. Cambridge
• Wildlife Tracking Amazing Update from Dave Brown added to website January 13, 2008
  Renowned New England tracker
  FAR updated survey
  Otter, fisher, grey and red fox, coyote thrive at Alewife added to website January 13, 2008
  Read Expert surveyor evidence
  A supplement to (and on the same web page as) the above report.
  With map.

• Rep. Brownsberger update on silver maple forest acquisition meeting with Governor Patrick - December 22, 2007
• Forest campaigns updated by FAR president, Ellen Mass - December 12, 2007
• Birds seen at Alewife - December 4, 2007

• Belmont and Cambridge residents call for celebration - December 10, 2007
  Belmont Conservation Commission denies O'Neill Permit on 40 B housing on environmental grounds and insufficient material and more.

• 1883-1890 Famous Uplands Belmont Historical Farm: Heustis /Hill Farm is Uncovered
  Map - Tidelands at Silver Maple Forest
  — updated with image and text December 1, 2007 — added to website November 20, 2007
• Demonstrating faults of 40B as a viable affordable housing law - link to video - November 16, 2007
• Excel Academy cleans Alewife Reservation, Stephanie Lee, Shannon Coyle, Teachers - October 30, 2007
• New map of Alewife Reservation and surrounding towns. - August 22, 2007 — added to website October 22, 2007
• Frequently requested:
  Easy GIS printable map of Alewife Reservation and the silver maple forest in Cambridge, Belmont and Arlington, MA. - added to website October 20, 2007
• Editorial Update on Silver Maple Forest - October 4, 2007
• Winn Brook Fund Raising flyer for Uplands Civil Action Suit - added to website October 2, 2007
• Blair Pond Birding Turns up unusual Sora Rail - September 24, 2007
• September Abundant Bird Sightings at Alewife - See list of Robert Stymeist, Menotomy Bird Club
• More Deer Sightings at Alewife - July 2007 - added to website Sept. 23, 2007
• Recent Photos of Alewife Reservation Deer
  Today's pictures from Seamus of Somerville, Menotomy Birder, Sept. 14, 2007
• Ecology Camp Awards Picnic photos - added to website September 12, 2997
  
  Rayshonda Williams, Joanna Etienne, Delisha Long, Miesha Singleton, Addison Marsh, Javan Tooley, Margaret Goldston, Rick Brown, Kenny Baez, and Virglio Dipre.
  
  
• Photos from FAR Ecology Camp - Summer 2007 - added to website Sept. 5, 2007
• Letters from FAR Ecology Camp - Summer 2007 - Youth tell of Ecology Camp experience - Youth write a letter to Gov. Deval Patrick asking for forest protection - August 22, 2007

• Resolution - Preserving and Protecting Belmont Silver Maple Forest - May 31, 2007

• Brownsberger Reaches out to Constituents - May 2007
• Havern-Brownsberger Bill 2007 - May 15, 2007
• Legislative background for Forest Acquisition Bill - May 3, 2007
• Springtime at Alewife Reservation
  "This legislator needs to hear from you and your friends . . . you must not delay" - May 27, 2007

• New prospective members and Steering Board are sought for 2007-2008.
  Please let FAR know of your interest. 617 415-1884 or info@friendsofreservation.org
  - added to website May 27, 2007
  
  
• New FAR office phone number 617 415-1884. (Fax is being set up.) - added to website May 27, 2007
  
  
• FAR has a new office outreach worker. Travis Harris a student at UMass Amherst will be at the FAR offices throughout the summer. He will be coordinating the Youth Opportunities Boston - FAR Alewife Meadow improvement project in July and August. Contact information - added to website May 27, 2007
  
  
• Wild Plants I Have Known... and Eaten - a book by Russ Cohen, illustrations by Stephanie Letendre - added to website May 27, 2007
• Cambridge Follows National Clean Air - Clean Water - Second Phase of National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Guidelines - begun by US EPA Clean Water-Clean Air Regulations. City Slide Show of 2008 city plans and federal regulations for Cambridge. - March 28, 2007 - added to website April 27, 2007
• Proposed Concord - Alewife Area Stormwater Management Guidelines - June 2006 - added to website April 27, 2007
• Alewife Birding - April 26, 2007
• Hope remains for the Uplands - Cambridge Chronicle letter - April 25, 2007
• Going native with plants: A new-old direction for water conservation - April 18, 2007
• STOP THE ROLLBACK OF TIDELAND PROTECTIONS! - April 5, 2007

• Demography, Useage and Suggestions Survey - Alewife Reservation - added to website April 3, 2007
• Will Corruption Flood the town of Belmont, Massachusetts? - added to website March 31, 2007
• Vernal Equinox Ritual at Alewife - March 25, 2007
• New Representative William Brownsberger Promises Protection for the forested Belmont Uplands - added to website March 19, 2007
• Affordable Housing - Not addressed by 40B in Massachusetts - March 19, 2007
• Residents Sue over Uplands - March 9, 2007
• Reform40B: Coalition for 40B Reform - Affordable housing in sensible ways, without attacking the local environment - "Reform 40B to stop abuses and increase availability of affordable housing via inclusionary zoning."
  groups.yahoo.com/group/Reform40B/ - link added to Archive and links March 13, 2007
  
  

• Civil Action Law Suit Filed in Behalf of Silver Maple Forest by Attorney Thomas B. Bracken
  Major Environmental Suit in New England Filed in Behalf of Forest and Watershed Protection
  added to website Mar. 10, 2007
• Snowbirds and deer tracks at Alewife Reservation - Feb. 23, 2007
• Conservation and Recreation Campaign Report - PARKS And RECREATION - OUR PUBLIC LEGACY - February 2007 - added to website, Feb. 24, 2007
• Belmont Makes 40B Decision, Ruling of Zoning Board, Conditions as of Feb. 16, Refined Decisions to Come - Feb. 21, 2007
• posters of the Alewife Arts Mural
  gorgeous 18x24 inch high resolution color mural poster
  
• Alewife-area aerial views (2002 and 2003) — in Image Collections
  • Showing Alewife Reservation and Little Pond subwatershed.
  • Public and private ownership in Belmont and Cambridge.
  • Topography.
  • Vegetation, woodlands, wetlands, pond, river, streams, and vernal pool.
  • Belmont, Arlington areas under preservation laws near Little Pond.
• Alewife 2007 Improvement Plans for Greenways and Alewife Reservation - added to website Jan. 23, 2007
• FAR President speaks to The Alewife News about preserving the Uplands. - Jan. 16, 2007
  
• Belmont applies to DEP for watershed assessment grant - added to website Jan. 17, 2007
• Belmont speaks out for Uplands, January 3, last public opportunity - Jan. 10, 2007
• Somerville Conservation Commission promotes a clean Alewife watershed - added to website Jan. 14, 2007
• Letter for Protection of the Belmont Uplands, Order of Conditions - added to website Jan. 11, 2007
• Public given Four days to prepare response to Order of Conditions, prepared by developer - not ZBA - Jan. 11, 2007
• Deny the permit for development at the Uplands -- answer to Waivers/Order of Conditions - Jan. 11, 2007
• More Order of Conditions in Behalf of Belmont Uplands Preservation - Jan. 7, 2007
• Alewife Regional Planning Requested - added to website Jan. 10, 2007
• Legislation Requests Purchase of Uplands - added to website Jan. 10, 2007
• Belmont Uplands Order of Conditions to Respond to:
  ZONING BOARD POSTS UPLANDS ORDER OF CONDITIONS BEFORE PERMITTING.
  Link to PDF file on Town of Belmont website - file may take a few minutes to download.
  added to website Jan. 5, 2007
• Public protected land by Department of Conservation and Recreation - with Uplands marked
  added to website Jan. 4, 2007
  
• Belmont Neighbors and FAR demand Environmental Justice - Dec. 29, 2006
• Poem: Plea to save Uplands - Dec. 27, 2006
• Solstice Sunday service brought 30 persons from Arlington, Somerville, Belmont and Cambridge to the Reservation to give honor and celebration to the 130 acre urban wild we call Alewife - Dec. 17, 2006 - 2 photos (+ photo below) added Dec. 27, 2006
  
  
  Ellen Mass Calls the Solstice participants to Action
  with Holiday card sent to favorite elected officials to stand up for this land and woodland.
  Portable fire with antlers and birch log, traditional Celtic Yule ritual material.
  Rev. Jim Adams, left - Center for Progressive Christianity.

• Belmont Area birds - Six Years of Birding Observation by David Lange and Menotomy Bird Club - Dec. 17, 2006
• State of the Massachusetts Environment December 2006 - cover letter and complete report - Dec. 16, 2006
  "The people shall have the right to clean air and water, freedom from excessive and unnecessary noise, and the natural scenic historic aesthetic qualities of their environment; and the protection of the people in their right to conservation, development and utilization of the agricultural, mineral, forest, water, air and other natural resources in hereby declared to be public purpose.
     -- Article XCVII of the Articles of Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution."
• FAR Board stands strong on pathway link up between Mystic River, Arlington, Somerville, Cambridge and Belmont Lexington and Bedford - Dec. 18, 2006
• Arlington Pans Once Again Uplands Development - Dec. 6, 2006
• Deer Tracks Identified at Alewife - Sighted by Karsten Hartel, Robert Stymeist, Dave Brown - Oct. 25 and Nov. 30, 2006
• More special bird sightings at Alewife - added Dec 3, 2006
• Alewife Reservation Birding - Nov. 30, 2006
• Alewife Birding - Nov. 22, 2006
• Sherwin: Farming on Belmont Uplands - Nov. 22, 2006
• Protect us from Uplands Mess - Nov. 22, 2006
• Focus on O'Neill Properties - Nov. 22, 2006
• Alewife Sunday at First Parish Church - Nov. 19, 2006
• Minimal Usage of North side River Pathway - Nov. 12, 2006
• Stewarding and Protecting the Alewife Reservation - FAR Community Service Day - Oct. 24, 2006
  
• Alewife Birding - Oct. 27, 2006
• Alewife Birding - Oct. 26, 2006
• Winn Brook Neighborhood Coalition created - Oct. 24, 2006
• More Opposition to the Uplands Development - Oct. 19, 2006
• Essentials for Protecting Our Watershed — Proper Disposing of Medication - Sept. 2006
• Alewife Birding Yields Impressive Results - Oct. 18, 2006
• Belmont Selectmen Voice Serious Concern On Uplands Future - (This information is the understanding of Friends of Alewife Reservation. We plan to update this when official posting is available.) - Oct. 18, 2006
• Alewife studies sought: Bill could slow Uplands permits - Oct. 12, 2006
• Monarch butterfly at Alewife - Oct. 9, 2006
• Birds Sighted - MBC trip - Oct. 4, 2006
• Common and Rare Birds Sighted in the Alewife Area - added Oct. 4, 2006
• Flickers Abound at Muskrat Marsh - added Oct. 2, 2006
• Belmont Uplands Appeal To Prevent Destruction to the Mystic River Watershed and the Silver Maple Forest and its Surroundings - added Sept. 27, 2006
• ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MUST FOLLOW STATE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS - added Sept. 27, 2006

• FAR speaks out on Bulfinch second phase Master Plan - July 7, 2006
• Rampant Misuse of Low Income Housing law in Massachusetts - added July 7, 2006
• CSO Activation in Alewife Brook - June 23, 2006 - June 23, 2006
• Water quality - Winn’s Brook, Wellington Brook, in Belmont - March 28, 2006
• Wild edible foods walk - led by Russ Cohen in Alewife Reservation - June 13, 2006

• Alewife bird observations - David Cowell - June 11, 2006
• Silver Maples In the Urban Wild - art of Sarah Leon - reception photo added June 3, 2006
• Public Protest in Belmont Against Uplands Development - Zoning Board meeting - May 31, 2006
• Updated stormwater Alewife Brook-Little River project - with map of Combined Sewer Outflows - April 2006
  Important stormwater project court decision delayed until September

• Birth of a Hummingbird - link to photos - 2005 and 2002
  
  
• Urgent Public Response Needed on Belmont Uplands - May 26, 2006
  Uplands Alternative Group Stands Strong on a "NO" to development.
  Public Building Moratorium Support Requested: Senate Bill 1909 Requests Environmental Study.

• 40B Application: filing with Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) by AP Cambridge Partners (O'Neill Properties) for a 40B development on the Belmont Uplands site - April 2004 - added to this website May 24, 2006 for easier access.
• The Cost of Affordable Housing - 2003 - Jon Witten, Tufts Environmental professor and attorney teacher at Boston College makes the case for appropriate affordable housing. He is presently studying the Uplands case.
  
  
• New Bird Sighted for Biodiversity Inventory - May 17, 2006
• Partnering to Preserve the Alewife Reservation - May 12, 2006
• Uplands Policy Order Adopted Unanimously by Cambridge City Council - May 8, 2006
• Cambridge Planning Board presents Orders of Conditions upon the Bulfinch Company's next Phase II for the Master Plan of Discovery Park - Nov. 4, 2004
• Statement before Executive Comm. of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee - April 27, 2006

• Uplands Farm Legacy - May 1, 2006
• Bird observations - April 30, 2006
• Bird House Monitoring - April 28, 2006
• Major Super Mystic Cleanup Sweeps the Alewife Reservation - April 27, 2006

• Fire in Alewife Reservation - includes photo - April 2006 — 14 photos added on April 29
• Bad news for Uplands — Wildlife waits: Wetlands bylaw withdrawn - link to April 13 Belmont Citizen-Herald - added April 27, 2006
• If You Build It - Constructed wetlands for urban stormwater - April 2006 publication, added April 27, 2006
• Alewife Reservation Status as Unique Ecosystem Grows with Scientific Method - Demonstrating status of Silver Maple forest Uplands - added April 13, 2006
• History of the Heustis farm - Early Letters from Historic Belmont Uplands - based on Richard Betts’s newsletter of March, 1993, for the Belmont Historical Association - added April 12, 2006

• Uplands Advisory Committee comments and Applicant's response - BELMONT UPLANDS COMPREHENSIVE PERMIT APPLICATION - 5 Uplands Committee responses plus Applicant's response - links to documents on Belmont's website. - added March 28, 2006
• Town of Belmont Responds to O'Neill Properties with Process and Past Deadlines - By Attorney for the Town, Judith Cutler - March 1, 2006
• North Trail Maintenance Improvement Project - Improved Pathway for conservationists, hikers, birders and class rooms, fishermen. Partners: Student Conservation Americorps, Department of Conservation and Recreation, Friends of Alewife Reservation. 67 photos/slides - March 2006
• Walk - 15 photos by Janet Malenfant - January 7, 2006

• Bird house work - with March activities for volunteers - FAR monitoring plan - provided by Stew Sanders - Feb. 25, 2006

• Belmont Conservation Commission rebuts Epsilon Developer's refusal to recognize identity and functioning of the forest and its wildlife, and condition of the town sewer system. - February 2004
  With changed consultants (Rizzo Inc) the same denial stands and facts remain. Present developer does not recognize functioning and identity of the Uplands.
• Two April 2004 letters from Michael Baram, Esq.
  Legal issues and needs for saving Uplands - April 23, 2004
  Alternative Plan to O'Neill's Housing Proposal for the Belmont Uplands - April 12, 2004
• Belmont Wetlands Protection Bylaw - Draft - Dec. 19, 2005
• Belmont 2001 Vision and Open Space and Recreation Plan - April, 2001 and January, 2001
• Listen to silver maple forest - by Virginia Fuller, Belmont Citizen-Herald - Feb. 9, 2006
• High School Science Project Benefits Alewife Reservation - by Julia J. Berg, CRLS, Belmont Citizen-Herald - submitted for Feb. 16, 2006 issue
• On the Chopping Block - by Kathleen Regan and Ellen Mass, Belmont Citizen-Herald - submitted for Feb. 16, 2006 issue
• Paving paradise to put up a 40B? - by Sally Alcorn, Belmont Citizen-Herald - Feb. 9, 2006
• Ecological overview - Belmont Uplands and Alewife Reservation - an important report, prepared for FAR, for use by the town of Belmont and other groups replying to the 40 B filing - Feb. 2006
  Curriculum vitae of Patrick Fairbairn, author of report: Adobe Acrobat PDF file   Microsft Word doc file
• Talk to ZBA about Uplands - by Darrell J. Kong, Belmont Citizen-Herald - Jan. 26, 2006
• Bird house work - FAR monitoring plan - provided by Stew Sanders - Feb. 3, 2006
• Models for writing letters to Belmont Uplands Advisory Group and local legislators
  with addresses and background information - Feb. 3, 2006
  ". . . FAR will be responding to the 40 B [Comprehensive Permit Application] filing but you will need to write letters if you want environmental issues to be taken seriously . . ."
• Belmont Conservation Commission letter to Muskrat Marsh team - Jan. 18, 2006
• Belmont Uplands - a model for the new Bruce Babbit book - Cities in the Wilderness - Published Aug. 20005
• Two articles in the Belmont Citezens Forum website's Jan. 2006 newsletter www.belmontcitizensforum.org/newsletters/2006/jan/BCFJan06.pdf
  • "Baskin Details Massachusetts Water Woes" - Leading water specialist notes scarcity of water in future
  • "Uplands 40B Plans" - Zoning Board process and status of Silver Maple Forest
• Red fox abound at Uplands - Belmont Citizen-Herald - Jan. 19, 2006
• Monitoring Alewife in winter - The good and bad news - by Robert Stymeitz of Mass Birds - Jan. 6, 2006
• Belmonters Speak out for Regional Forest - Belmont Citizen-Herald - Jan. 5, 2006
• Bird house work - FAR winter monitoring plan - volunteers needed - Dec. 2005
• Muskrat Marsh study - preliminary drafts (maps) - Dec. 2005
• Watershed: An Excursion in Four Parts - by Emily Hiestand - 2005
• Concord Serve-A-Thon youth show appreciation for work program - SEASONS GREETINGS.THE GRINCH HAS COME TO ALEWIFE RESERVATION, But GOOD CHEER FROM OUR HELPERS AS WELL - Oct. 2005
• Astrophysics Center Aids Biodiversity - from The Harvard Crimson online edition - Nov. 2005
• Combined Sewer Overflow Control Project for Alewife Brook Area Moves Forward - Apr. 2003 news release
• City Year Serve-A-Thon cleanup - Oct. 2005
• MIT trail project - photos added - Sept. 2005
• Draft final construction plans for this phase of restoration of the former MDC parking lot parcel near Alewife - Sept. 2005
• Flooding Lessons for Alewife Towns - Oct. 2005
• FAR storm water basin brochure (Adobe Acrobat file) - Sept. 2005
• New Office Intern / Volunteer Needed! starting September 2005 to dedicate at least 8 hours/week to volunteer outreach and regular office tasks.
• Muskrat Marsh Meeting - July 12, 2005
• FAR office — details (including viewing/borrowing FAR materials) on Contact page
• FAR seeks help to map plant communities in the Bulfinch Muskrat marsh in the restoration area. Contact David Morimoto: Morimoto@lesley.edu - 2005
• Mother silver maple weakens - May 2005
• Muskrat Marsh Restoration Team project — press release - May 2005
• Muskrat Marsh Restoration Project Team requests Belmont Uplands Advisory Committee wait for any plans while study is being made of the area - May 2005
• Urban Wilds: Past — Present — Future (presentation, June 2005)
• Unusual species sighting: Fisher (Martes pennanti) in the Muskrat Marsh and Alewife Reservation - May 2005
• Restoring America's rivers — a model for Alewife - May 2005
• Urban Wild (Alewife Reservation) — paintings by Vicki Paret - 2005

FAR office

FAR's office is located conveniently in the Fresh Pond Mall
at 186 Alewife Brook Parkway, Suite 304, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617 415-1884 (Fax is being set up.)
Viewing/borrowing materials

Bulfinch Central Marsh: Muskrat Marsh Restoration Project

Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Priority Project at Alewife Central Marsh
— Active Participants:
USDA - Conservation Preservation Resources Services: Massachusetts Community Assistance Partnerships — Coastal Zone Management: Wetlands Restoration Program — Bulfinch Company Inc. — BSC Engineering Inc. — Friends of Alewife Reservation — Mystic River Watershed Association — Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership — Lesley University: Natural Sciences Program — Cambridge Conservation Commission — Arlington Conservation Commission — Belmont Conservation Commission

• Brian O'Neill, developer at the Uplands declares he is taking down the trees - added May 6, 2012
• Who is flagging our precious wetlands? - added April 12, 2012
• City Climate Leader appeals to Cambridge City Manager - added to website April 2, 2012
• FAR sends letter on environmental impact to Planning Board against high density development in the floodplain - March 17, 2012
• Mystic River Watershed Assocation Produces Policy Statement on Silver Maple forest - March 9, 2012
• Hydrology Report Shows the dangers of developing on the Belmont Uplands - added to website March 8, 2012
• Environmental and Civic Leaders Respond to Vicious GLOBE Accusations - March 3, 2012
• Horsley and Witten: Technical Analysis of Upper Alewife Brook Basin - updated February 29, 2012
• Cambridge Rindge and Latin Design Class students participate in Friends of Alewife Reservation Silver Maple Forest poster contest. - February 14, 2012
• Report to to Town of Belmont - added to website February 17, 2012
  Challenge by Plaintiffs on Storm water #3 standard which includes Conservation Commission arguments to the final "Decision" of Judge Roby at the 2009 DEP Adjudicatory Hearings.
  and
  Scott Horsley 2007 report to Town of Belmont on Building design and flooding issues which exist at the Belmont Uplands silver maple forest.
• Scott Horsley of Horsley and Witten gives presentation on environmental impact study of the Silver Maple Forest to legislators at the state house sponsored by Friends of Alewife Reservation - February 14, 2012
• State Appeals Court receives Silver Maple Case from Coalition to Preserve Belmont Uplands. - February 6, 2012
• Widespread Support for Alewife Floodplain Protections - Sierra Club article on Discovery Park developments, Forest and Floodplain Forum - December 21, 2011
• Superior Court Judge Haggerty Rules Against Town of Belmont, Plaintiffs and Communities on Silver Maple Forest - PDF of ruling - December 12, 2011
• DEP Silver Maple Forest Wetlands Map - added December 15, 2011
  
• FEMA floodway encroaches on fire-road at the least - November 10, 2011
• O'Neill Properties makes mark on Raritan River and New Jersey.
  "Capping" proposed for solutions to toxic waste.
  www.njn.net/about/pressrelease/11archive/11jun-rescuingtheriver.html
  added to website August 31, 2011
• Meeting on Alewife Construction - June 13, 2011
• Vital Alewife Natural Resources Need Consideration - added to website June 13, 2011
• Drainage/Utility construction underway - May 3, 2011 announcement; added to website June 11, 2011
• Official Report on Belmont Silver Maple Forest from Normandeau Assoc. to City Council and Mayor - May 31, 2006, updated December 14, 2010
• Urban Forests are important for climate change - www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/topics/urban-forests/ (United States Forest Service writes on importance of Urban Forests) - added to website May 25, 2011
• Building a billion dollar empire at Alewife - Series of N.J and Pa. news and blog articles on N.J. Raritan Bay pollution and suit against same Uplands developer - May 14, 2011
• O'Neill Properties gets international exposure - added to website May 17, 2011
• Forum - Thursday, April 28 - 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm - Floodplain Forest and Floodway Development: Implications for Nearby Residents, Communities and Wildlife - Flyer:
  Word document (small file) - PDF (larger file) - added to website April 12, 2011
• 2010 FEMA FLOODPLAIN DESIGNATIONS AT SILVER MAPLE FOREST and BULFINCH-O'NEILL CAMPUS added to website March 29, 2011
• One thousand petitions delivered to State House and EOEEA from Friends of Alewife Reservation March 14, 2011
• Woburn Superior Court Civil Action case; Where is the Evidence?; Superior Court Hears Silver Maple Forest; Thank you to Attorneys March 12, 2011 press release
• Why waiting is not always the best as our legislators recommend March 12, 2011 Commentary by Ellen Mass
• Silver Maple Trial captured by Change.org, Ben Proffer - added to website March 1, 2011
• Silver maple forest Hearing, Middlesex Superior Court, March 2, 2011
• Change.Org features article on silver maple forest in:
  Snow saves Massachusetts silver maple forest - February 7, 2011
  Article by Ben Proffer, Journalist New York magazine, Leisure, Elle, Travel
• FAR Silver Maple Forest Video - added January 18, 2011
• O'Neill Development Impact on Alewife Reservation - map - added January 13, 2011
• Silver Maple Forest Wins With Legislators at the State House - January 4, 2011
• Cambridge Chronicle on Silver Maple Hearing - January 3, 2011
• FEMA and Mass DEP floodplain maps with O'Neill footprint - added to website December 9, 2010
• FEMA floodplain maps with O'Neill footprint - added to website December 9, 2010
• Cambridge Prepares Officially with Nation for Climate Change
  www.cambridgema.gov/citynewsandpublications/news/2010/11/cityofcambridgetoprioritizepreparationsforclimatechange.aspx - added to website November 21, 2010
  Please consider circulating and calling Cambridge City Councilors to ask them NOT to remove their only floodplain forest.
  617 349-4000. under CITY in voice directory. Ask for Councilors Seidel, Davis, Simmons, Kelley.
  Overdevelopment and climate change protection often do not go hand in hand.
• Summarized update of silver maple activities (October 10 – November 10) - November 10, 2010
• Lesley University Professor Appeals for Preservation - October 25, 2010
• Mystic River Watershed Says No to Uplands Development (PDF file) - October 27, 2010
• Sierra Club says no to removal of silver maple forest. - October 26, 2010
• City Council orders city departments to consider a denial for permits. - October 25, 2010
• Belmont Land Trust supports preservation of Silver maple forest Uplands - added to website October 14, 2010
• Coalition Requests Belmont Public Hearing to ZBA on O'Neill Changes as possibly "significant".
  Monday night meeting in Belmont.
  See statement by President of Coalition
• Activists Work To Preserve Belmont Uplands Gem
  Belmont Citizen Herald presents Centerpiece on Environmental Value of Uplands.
  Text, Photo, very short Video clip included.
  www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/features/x7657474/Activists-work-to-preserve-Belmont-Uplands-gem
  August 20 and 21, 2010
• Silver Maple Forest in Grave Jeopardy
  FAR Responds to Silver Maple Forest feature article from Belmont Citizen Herald
  August 17
  - added September 15, 2010
• State Should Shield Towns from Poor Land Uses - Article about the silver maple forest - Belmont Citizen Herald, September 3, 2010
• Civil Action: Silver Maple Forest Belmont Conservation Commission Complaint for Superior Court June 2010 - June 8, 2010
• Superior Court filing today by defenders of silver maple forest - with complaint text as Word & PDF files - added June 10, 2010
• Belmont Conservation Commission Stands Up for Silver Maple Forest in Belmont Citizen-Herald - April 16, 2010
• Thumbs Down on Life of Silver Maple Forest - March 22, 2010 - added to website March 27, 2010
• Responses and Major News Surrounds Uplands forest developer in Pennsylvania - added to website February 13, 2010
• After Delay, City-Alewife Storm Water and Wetlands Restoration Plan Moves Forward - May 20, 2009
  Beginning later 2009 and 2010
  Many visitor and classroom amenities are provided
  Storm Water Basin Brochure
• Summary Article of April 27th: Third Trial of Maples
• April 3, 2009 Trial Summary
• letter to the editor - Silver Maple Forest Future Hangs in the Balance - March 10, 2009
• press release - Silver Maple Forest Future Hangs in the Balance - March 10, 2009
• Cambridge councilors vote to help save Silver Maple Forest - March 4, 2009
• Mass/Dzierzeski: Trial of Silver Maple Forest begins - March 3, 2009
• March 18-March 20 Land Court
  *The Land Court, 226 Causeway Street, Boston, MA (near TD Banknorth/Fleet Center). For information and directions, please call 617-788-7470. Call 617 415-1884 for more precise information.
• Trial of Silver Maple Forest - March 10, 2009 - The Belmont Conservation Commission appeal hearing with Interverers, including FAR, is on March 10 at the DEP Regional Office on 205B Lowell Street, Wilmington, MA beginning at 9:00 am. Call 617415-1884 for more precise information.
• Trial of Silver Maple Forest Has Begun - added to website March 4, 2009
• SILVER MAPLE PROTECTION SUPPORT
  FROM: Forests and Parks Friends Network signing onto FAR letters.
  See Cover Letter to Friends Network and Letter to EOEA Secretary Ian Bowles.
  February 23, 2009
• Forest Protection: Pre-filed state DEP Testimony of professional wildlife consultant - January 22, 2009
• FAR files with state DEP in civil action on forest protection - January 22, 2009
• Retraction in fact on CCC and permitting developer of Uplands - January 18, 2009
• Cambridge Chronicle Publishes Cambridge Conservation Commission Permitting Faults In regards to Silver Maple Forest - December 25, 2008
• Legislator Will Brownsberger Supports Forest Protection
  Interview with Paul Solomon - outgoing Selectman
  bloggingbelmont.com/2008/04/in-the-mix-will-brownsberger-part-2/
  April, 2008
• Mystic River Watershed Association Supports Silver Maple Forest Protection - August 13, 2007
• Dec. 2 Forest Forum With Determined Voices
  Photo and Quotes from Noted Speakers - added December 6, 2008
• Belmont Uplands Map of Future Hazards to Belmont, Arlington, Cambridge and Watershed (PDF file)
  Donation Requested.
  From Coalition to Preserve Belmont Uplands and Winn Brook Neighborhood (CPBuWBN)
  added November 15, 2008

• FAR asks DCR to work in cooperation with them And complete the prescribed work plan - October 20, 2008 - added November 13, 2008
• Coalition to Protect Belmont Uplands and Winn Brook Neighborhood files Courtroom Status Report (Microsoft Word file) of the Case in ongoing Civil Action Suit to Preserve the Silver Maple Forest. - added November 12, 2008
  
  
• Statement of disappointment in Governor’s forest veto - added August 16, 2008
• Uplands News:
  Pennsylvania and Belmont Developer’s 53 million dollar luxury waterfront development goes up in flames.
  Thousands may be without homes. - August 14, 2008
  www.saveardmorecoalition.org/node/2425
• Selectmen Push Uplands Development Position - June 1, 2008
• Mass: Spring is bursting out at Alewife - May 8, 2008
• Speaking on the Silver Maple Forest
  Belmont Citizen Herald - February 14
  Clamor for Purchase of 0f the Uplands
  By Virginia Fuller, Former President of Mass Wildlife
  www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/news/opinions/x1094540955
• BREAKING NEWS ON PURCHASE OF FOREST - February 14, 2008
  Silver Maple Forest passes Natural Resources Committee with the state Environmental Bond Bill - February 18, 2008
  The Bill needs to pass in this Legislative Session. FAR requests that you e-mail and call your state representatives right away.
  See Bond Bill (on envirobond.org website), See sample letter (near bottom of linked page).
• Rep. Brownsberger update on silver maple forest acquisition meeting with Governor Patrick - December 22, 2007
• Links to articles about J.Brian O'Neill and O'Neill Properties, now operating as Cambridge Partners Ltd in regards the Uplands or "Frontage Road apartments". - added to website December 20, 2007
• Demonstrating faults of 40B as a viable affordable housing law - link to video - November 16, 2007
• Editorial Update on Silver Maple Forest - October 4, 2007
• Resolution - Preserving and Protecting Belmont Silver Maple Forest - May 31, 2007
• Brownsberger Reaches out to Constituents - May 2007
• Havern-Brownsberger Bill 2007 - May 15, 2007
• Legislative background for Forest Acquisition Bill - May 3, 2007
• Springtime at Alewife Reservation
  "This legislator needs to hear from you and your friends . . . you must not delay" - May 27, 2007
• Hope remains for the Uplands - Cambridge Chronicle letter - April 25, 2007
• Will Corruption Flood the town of Belmont, Massachusetts? - added to website March 31, 2007
• New Representative William Brownsberger Promises Protection for the forested Belmont Uplands - added to website March 19, 2007
• Affordable Housing - Not addressed by 40B in Massachusetts - March 19, 2007
• Residents Sue over Uplands - March 9, 2007

• Civil Action Law Suit Filed in Behalf of Silver Maple Forest by Attorney Thomas B. Bracken
  Major Environmental Suit in New England Filed in Behalf of Forest and Watershed Protection
  added to website Mar. 10, 2007
• Belmont Makes 40B Decision, Ruling of Zoning Board, Conditions as of Feb. 16, Refined Decisions to Come - Feb. 21, 2007
• FAR President speaks to The Alewife News about preserving the Uplands. - Jan. 16, 2007
  
  
• Belmont speaks out for Uplands, January 3, last public opportunity - Jan. 10, 2007
  
  
• Letter for Protection of the Belmont Uplands, Order of Conditions - added to website Jan. 11, 2007
  
  
• Public given Four days to prepare response to Order of Conditions, prepared by developer - not ZBA - Jan. 11, 2007
  
  
• Deny the permit for development at the Uplands -- answer to Waivers/Order of Conditions - Jan. 11, 2007
  
  
• More Order of Conditions in Behalf of Belmont Uplands Preservation - Jan. 7, 2007
  
  
• Alewife Regional Planning Requested - added to website Jan. 10, 2007
  
  
• Legislation Requests Purchase of Uplands - added to website Jan. 10, 2007
  
  
• Belmont Uplands Order of Conditions to Respond to:
  ZONING BOARD POSTS UPLANDS ORDER OF CONDITIONS BEFORE PERMITTING.
  Link to PDF file on Town of Belmont website - file may take a few minutes to download.
  added to website Jan. 5, 2007
  
  
• Public protected land by Department of Conservation and Recreation - with Uplands marked
  added to website Jan. 4, 2007
  
  
• Belmont Neighbors and FAR demand Environmental Justice - Dec. 29, 2006
  
  
• Poem: Plea to save Uplands - Dec. 27, 2006
  
  
• Arlington Pans Once Again Uplands Development - Dec. 6, 2006
  
  
• Protect us from Uplands Mess - Nov. 22, 2006
  
  
• Focus on O'Neill Properties - Nov. 22, 2006
  
  
• Winn Brook Neighborhood Coalition created - Oct. 24, 2006
  
  
• More Opposition to the Uplands Development - Oct. 19, 2006
  
  
Belmont Selectmen Voice Serious Concern On Uplands Future - (This information is the understanding of Friends of Alewife Reservation. We plan to update this when official posting is available.) - October 18, 2006


• Alewife studies sought: Bill could slow Uplands permits - October 12, 2006
  
  
• FAR speaks out on Bulfinch second phase Master Plan - July 7, 2006
  
  
• Rampant Misuse of Low Income Housing law in Massachusetts - added July 7, 2006
  
  
• Public Protest in Belmont Against Uplands Development - Zoning Board meeting - May 31, 2006
  
  
• Urgent Public Response Needed on Belmont Uplands - May 26, 2006
  Uplands Alternative Group Stands Strong on a "NO" to development.
  Public Building Moratorium Support Requested: Senate Bill 1909 Requests Environmental Study.

• 40B Application: filing with Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) by AP Cambridge Partners (O'Neill Properties) for a 40B development on the Belmont Uplands site - April 2004 - added to this website May 24, 2006 for easier access.
• The Cost of Affordable Housing - 2003 - Jon Witten, Tufts Environmental professor and attorney teacher at Boston College makes the case for appropriate affordable housing. He is presently studying the Uplands case.
  
  
• Senate and House Havern Bill 1909 may save the Uplands from ruthless clear cutting - Study bill of hydrology, flooding, traffic, and a dedicated lane will bring careful environmental scrutiny to the severe problems on the northwest corridor - added May 17, 2006
  
  
• Uplands Policy Order Adopted Unanimously by Cambridge City Council - May 8, 2006
  
  
• Cambridge Planning Board presents Orders of Conditions upon the Bulfinch Company's next Phase II for the Master Plan of Discovery Park - Nov. 4, 2004
  
  
• Statement before Executive Comm. of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee - April 27, 2006
  
  
• Bad news for Uplands — Wildlife waits: Wetlands bylaw withdrawn - link to April 13, 2006 Belmont Citizen-Herald
  
  
• Alewife Reservation Status as Unique Ecosystem Grows with Scientific Method - Demonstrating status of Silver Maple forest Uplands - added to website April 13, 2006
  
  
• History of the Heustis farm - Early Letters from Historic Belmont Uplands - based on Richard Betts’s newsletter of March, 1993, for the Belmont Historical Association - added to website April 12, 2006
  
  
• Uplands Advisory Committee comments and Applicant's response - BELMONT UPLANDS COMPREHENSIVE PERMIT APPLICATION - 5 Uplands Committee responses plus Applicant's response - links to documents on Belmont's website.
  
  
• Town of Belmont Responds to O'Neill Properties with Process and Past Deadlines - By Attorney for the Town, Judith Cutler - March 1, 2006
  
  
• FAR to Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals - March 3, 2006
  Filing includes 5 folders of 5 categories each for 8 ZBA members, plus one for the developer and one for the Community Development on: Science, Improvements at Alewife, News Articles, Reports and Resolutions, Maps
  
  
• On the Chopping Block - by Kathleen Regan and Ellen Mass, Belmont Citizen-Herald - submitted for Feb. 16, 2006 issue
  "Approximately 40 percent of the 13 acre Belmont Uplands silver maple forest is proposed for removal, a stand that makes up the only forested area of the Alewife Reservation . . ."
  
  
• Paving paradise to put up a 40B? - by Sally Alcorn, Belmont Citizen-Herald - Feb. 9, 2006
  "The 40B apartment complex for the Belmont Uplands proposed by O'Neill Properties is at a critical stage . . ."
  
  
• Final report of Belmont Conservation Commission to Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals - 40B Uplands Proposal - Residences at Acorn Park - Feb. 9, 2006
  ". . . questions for the ZBA to consider and some talking points for reflection as the board considers the merits and drawbacks of building a 40B development on the Uplands parcel . . ."
  
  
• Listen to silver maple forest - by Virginia Fuller, Belmont Citizen-Herald - Feb. 9, 2006
  ". . . this may also sound like a fable - and it is. But it is a fable that would be far more desirable for our town than the alternative . . ."
  
  
• Ecological overview - Belmont Uplands and Alewife Reservation - an important report, prepared for FAE, for use by the town of Belmont and other groups replying to the 40 B filing - Feb. 2006
  ". . . summary review of findings to date and an analysis of ecological impacts to be anticipated from proposed development of the O’Neill Properties tract commonly known as the Belmont Uplands . . ."
  
  
• Letters to Belmont Uplands Advisory Group And Local Legislators - Feb. 3, 2006
  with addresses and background information
  ". . . Belmont Uplands 40 B Comprehensive Permit Application . . . FAR will be responding to the 40 B filing but you will need to write letters if you want environmental issues to be taken seriously . . ."
  
  
• Talk to ZBA about Uplands - Jan. 26, 2006
  " . . . The Conservation Commission, Planning Board, and other town departments will weigh in with written comments, but it is imperative that citizens respond as well . . ." - Belmont Citizen-Herald
  
  
• Belmont Wetlands Protection Bylaw - Draft - Dec. 19, 2005
  " . . . to maintain the quality of surface water, the quality and level of the ground water table and water recharge areas for existing or potential water supplies; to protect the public health and safety; to protect persons and property against the hazards of flood water inundation; and to provide for the reasonable protection and conservation of certain irreplaceable natural features, resources, and amenities for the benefit and welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the Town of Belmont . . ."
  
  
• Mother silver maple weakens - May, 2005
  Mother tree dies to enrich her offspring trees in the sacred silver maple forest.
  This is a sign of strength and regeneration, not weakness as developer may want to believe.
  
  
• Proposal for support from Department of Conservation and Recreation ("DCR") for adding Belmont/Cambridge (Massachusetts) Uplands to the Alewife Reservation
  - April 6, 2005 (draft)
  
  
• Belmont Uplands Editorial Update — Uplands in a Crisis
  Fighting to Preserve the Belmont Silver Maple Forest
  And YOU must too.
  Commentary by Ellen Mass, President, Friends of Alewife Reservation - April, 2005
  

  "Saving the Ballona". Although our Boston area does not have California's Martin Sheen and Ed Asner, we do need others who will bring us the attention the Uplands deserves. The huge California coalition succeeded in saving a wetland of 600 acres outside of Los Angeles recently.
  http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/global/sensem/garcia198.html

• Flooding, Sewers May Limit Uplands Plans - Meg Muckenhoupt, Belmont Citizens Forum - March, 2005
• Uplands Progress Stalls with the Board of Selectmen - Who responds to 40B? - Arthur Katz/ Correspondent, Belmont Citizen Herald - March, 2005
• Uplands Critical to Local Wildlife - Ellen Mass - Boston Globe, Globe NorthWest - March, 2005
• Mass Development ok's Silver Maple forest clear-cutting at Belmont Uplands
  • By Frederick S. Paulsen, Belmont notable and Coordinator of the Belmont Uplands Advisory Committee (BUAC)
  • Spells out official and popular town position - March, 2005
  • Letter / Commentary - Feb., 2005
  • State OKs housing at Alewife, By Arthur Katz / Correspondent, Belmont Citizen Herald - Feb. 17, 2005 www2.townonline.com/belmont/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=187447
• "Belmont apartment proposal gets boost" - response to Christine McConville Boston Globe article - Feb., 2005
  
  
• Legal issues and needs for saving Uplands - April 23, 2004
  Michael Baram, Esq.
  ". . . the foregoing comments may be helpful. I urge the Town to retain an attorney with 40B expertise as soon as possible."
  
  
• Alternative Plan to O'Neill's Housing Proposal for the Belmont Uplands - April 12, 2004
  Michael Baram, Esq.
  ". . . I believe that the Alternative Plan is feasible on economic, political and legal grounds. Further, it is supported by many organizations and individuals in Belmont and neighboring communities as a creative and fair compromise between competing interests."
  
  
• Belmont Citizen Irate Over O'Neill's Unwillingness to Consider Land Swap - March, 2004
  
  
• Belmont Conservation Commission rebuts Epsilon Developer's refusal to recognize identity and functioning of the forest and its wildlife, and condition of the town sewer system. - February 2004
  With changed consultants (Rizzo Inc) the same denial stands and facts remain. Present developer does not recognize functioning and identity of the Uplands.
  
  
• Belmont 2001 Vision and Open Space and Recreation Plan - April, 2001 and January, 2001
  ". . . We will be an environmentally responsible community and conserve our natural habitats . . ."
  ". . . identify options and methods to protect open space for the many values it provides - to preserve the current green character of the town . . ."
  ", , , The most significant privately owned open spaces, in terms of visibility and general public accessibility are . . . Belmont Uplands (owned by O'Neill Properties.) . . ."

• Bulfinch Consultants respond to Conservation Commission and other organizational and individual comment letters and reports.
  For more comments about the environment and how to improve it, please send to FAR. Also respond on the forum page.
• Belmont Citizen Forum responds on Bulfinch — Traffic and flood emphasis — letter to MEPA
• Letter in Boston Globe: "Alewife proposal good for city, environment", from Ellen Mass of FAR.
• Boston Sierra Club asks for careful consideration in development planning at the Alewife Reservation
• Letters on Notice of Intent to Cambridge Conservation Commission from Ellen Mass (cover letter - Friends of Alewife Reservation organizational response) and Mary L. White of FAR and information from Stewart Sanders
• Letter on Environmental Notification Form to MEPA from Elsie C. Fiore
• Letter to Executive Office of Environmental Affairs / MEPA Office, from Mystic River Watershed Association

This fine, large meadow, upwards of one hundred acres in extent, has changed but little, either in character or surroundings, within the past thirty or forty years. It lies partly in Belmont and Waltham, but chiefly in the southeastern corner of Lexington, near the source of Beaver Brook. Although for the most part open and grassy, it contains many swampy thickets, several tracts of low-lying maple woods and a few wooded ridges and 'marsh islands.' The Concord Turnpike crosses it from east to west on an ancient causeway bordered by pollarded willows. Through the long and alluring vista formed by the trunks and overarching branches of these fine old trees one may walk or drive in cool and unbroken shade during the hottest June day, listening to the songs of Bobolinks, Red-winged Blackbirds, Swamp Sparrows, Yellow Warblers, Maryland Yellow-throats, Catbirds and other marsh- or thicket-loving birds . . . As the meadow is also bordered on every side by sparsely populated country, abounding in woods, thickets, cedar pastures and grassy fields, it offers to the bird lover one of the most attractive and interesting resorts to be found anywhere, at the present time, within easy reach of Cambridge.